Improved lamp-lighter



0. M. CLINTON.

.LAMPLIGHTER.

Patented Dec. 1, 1863.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

CHARLES M. CLINTON, or ITHAoA, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED LAMP-LIGHTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 40,734, dated December1, 1863.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that 1, CHARLES M. CLINTON, of the town of Ithaca, inthe-county of Tompkins and State of New York, have invented an ImprovedLELIllITLlg'lltGI'; and I dohereby declare that the following is a fulland exact description thereof, reference being bad to the annexeddrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, in which-Figure 1 is a sectional view of my lamplighter, showing the constructionthereof; and

.Fig. 2 is an external View of it.

The object of my invention has especial reference to lighting petroleumand other hydrocarbon lamps without removing the chimneys, as well asmaking a lighting-taper.

In Fig. 1, A is theapertureend of the tube, having an opening aboutone-sixteenth of an inch in diameter. B is the tube, increasing in sizeregularly from one end to the other. O is the cork or stopper to retainthe alcohol within the tube. The wick is cotton wound with one or morewires, and is condensed atone end and expands at thelarger end, so as tofill, or nearly so, the cavity of the tube. By the projection of thewires out of the aperture at A a nucleus or center is made for theflame, protectin g it from currents of air and from being extinguishedby rapid motion and other exposures, and the wires are useful in drawingout the wick from time to time as it is consumed, a pair of scissorsreadily trimming oft the minute wires, and, experience having shown thatthe reverse position of the tubein puttin g it down a lamp'chimney charsthe cotton some distance up the tube, the wires render the wick moredurable.

The practical construction and use of my lamp-lighter are apparent tothose skilled in the art to which it a-pperta-ins to be lightinga lamp-wick at the bottom of a chimney, or other wise using it as a lighter,as convenience may direct.

What I claim is- The combination of the tube B, the stopper 0, and theWire-wound wick,when one or more wires are used about the wick for thepurposes of preventing the destruction of the Wick in the smaller partof the tube and to drawthe wick out of the tube for trimming it, as Wellas to center'and protect the flame about the projecting wire or wires.

CHAS. M. CLINTON.

In presence of- JEROME ROWE, W BANGLE.

